Hi all,

I've been having some hardware headache's over the last few days, where it appears that if I plug more than one IDE drive on the same IDE cable and slot, the drive intermittently becomes unresponsive, displays errors on boot or simply doesn't mount once I boot into Linux. If I run with one drive as Primary Master and one drive as Slave Master none of these issues arise.

Is this generally a sign of a withering motherboard, or dodgy IDE cable's?

Jamie

Just a quick thought here jamie, have you check your IRQ's and made sure you're not trying to run both IDEs on the same one? I can see that causing problems if you are. Maybe carefully check your pins too if its not the cable, make sure one isn't bent or broken off.

Regards,

Serge

Not familiar with IRQ setting's relating to IDE's so may need to do a bit of research on that unless you know how I check this?

The pins seem ok. Digging around the office trying to find some alternative IDE cable's to test out, but not convinced it's this as it would be strange for *both* to be faulty.

How do you run 'em when they're on the same cable then? Both as master? You're probably not, but I'm just checking

If I'm not mistaken you'd check your IRQ's in the BIOS (and pretty sure you can change your settings there too), if your post allows it they can be seen there as well, and as psYchotic says ( I think this is what he was getting at), make sure you're not trying to run both as master off the same cable (which is why it works with one as master and one as slave, I believe it should be this way (always stand to be corrected too lol) master is generally the closest one up on the cable). As you have given so little information on the actual configuration and what you have (tsk tsk lol jk jk) it doesnt give us much to guess on. Some more info would be great! One Q I have is is this only a Linux OS or are you also having Windows playing in there, just curious.